TY - BOOK AU - Gujarati,Damodar N. TI - Essentials of econometrics SN - 0072970928 AV - HB139 .G85 2006 U1 - 330.01'5195 PY - 2006/// CY - Boston, MA PB - McGraw-Hill/Irwin KW - Econometrics KW - Economics KW - Statistical methods KW - fast N1 - Interrnational edition; Includes index; I. The nature and scope of economics II. Basics of probability and statistics III. Characteristics of probability distributions IV. Some important probability distributions 5. Statistical inference: estimation and hypothesis testing 6. Basic ideas of linear regression: the two variable model 7. The two variable model: hypothesis testing 8. Multiple regression: estimation and hypothesis testing 9. Functional forms of regression models 10. Dummy variable regression models 11. Model selection: criteria and tests 12. Multicollinearity: what happens if explanatory variables are correlated? 13. Heteroscedasticity: what happens if the error variance is non constant? 14. Autocorrelation: what happens if Error terms are correlated? 15. Simultaneous equation models 16. Selected topics in single equation regression models ER -